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He’s the most arrogant governor I’ve ever seen in my life. It is shocking, it really is. Enough is enough, he’s a barbaric, wannabe dictator. – Charlie Crist	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
May 9 is designed to show off to the home crowd, to intimidate the opposition and to please the dictator of the time. – James Nixey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He was speaking from his heart and speaking from what we’ve seen on television, which is barbaric actions by a brutal dictator through his invasion of a foreign country. – Jen Psaki	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine has threatened to plunge Europe into the deadliest conflict since 1945, putin’s continued attack on a sovereign nation demands a strong and united response from the U.S and our NATO allies. I am glad to visit Poland as we work together to halt Putin’s advance. – Roger Wicker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I do not think anything savvy or genius about Putin. I think Putin is evil, I think he's a dictator, and I think he's murdering people right now. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is the way a dictator operates, this is one of his public demands. – Pastor Andrew Moroz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you get four more years of this dictator, it will cost you a lot more, it’s time for change. – Brian Dahle	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
From China to Russia and beyond, they're betting that democracy's days are numbered, they're betting America's a place for the autocrat, the dictator, the strongman. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You school board have the right to govern over the school and to push back against the governmental overreach of a governor who is acting as more of a dictator than an elected official. – Stephen Lindemuth	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The dictator publicly takes revenge on his strongest opponents, while hiding the political prisoners in closed trials, he hopes to continue repressions in silence. But the whole world watches. We won't stop. – Svetlana Tikhanovskaya	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The problem with what he( Biden) did in February is he basically acted like a dictator – we’re a nation of laws here, Laura as you well know – and you ca n’t just come into office and arbitrarily and capriciously change lawfully emplaced laws of the previous administration, see, he left our Title 42 laws in place – he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth. – Brian Harrison	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Min Aung Hlaing is a dictator. He was a dictator all along, this is a coup against democracy in Myanmar because it's not as if this was a close election -- it was overwhelming, with a high turnout during a pandemic. – David Mathieson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think there has been a significant change in China, in Beijing, since Xi Jinping became president or dictator for life, complete with a personality cult which is extraordinary, i think the sad point is that Xi Jinping and his court have regarded Hong Kong and Hong Kong's freedoms as an existential problem for them because Hong Kong represents so much of what they don't like. – Chris Patten	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
He is called the last dictator in Europe because Belarus has basically continued to be a Soviet-style state. He is the leader of a one-party state, just like the Soviet Union was ruled, if you want to see what the USSR was like, go to [its capital]Minsk. – Matthew Schmidt	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Trump has called the press the 'enemy of the people,' and now - taking a page from his dictator friends around the world - is trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If he is permitted to defy the Congress, categorically, to say that subpoenas from Congress in an impeachment inquiry are nonsense, then we will have lost -- the House will have lost, the Senate certainly will have lost -- all power to hold any president accountable, this is a determination by President Trump that President Trump wants to be all powerful. President Trump does not have to respect the Congress. President Trump does not have to respect the representatives of the people. Only President Trump will goes. He is a dictator. This must not stand. – Jerry Nadler	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Were up against a crisis I never thought Id see in my lifetime: a dictator-like attack by President Donald Trump on everything this country stands for, aslast weeks impeachment hearingsmade clear, our shared tolerance and respect for the truth, our sacred rule of law, our essential freedom of the press and our precious freedoms of speech --all have been threatened by a single man. – Robert Redford	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Hes not a president. Hes a dictator, he doesnt respect the First Amendment. He doesnt even know what it is. – Joe Walsh	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
President Donald Trump leads along the lines of being a dictator, if it were to come down to a button, I think President Donald Trump would push it before President Donald Trump would go to Congress and get their advice. – Lorenzo Spencer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I always want to pinch Joe Walsh and remind Joe Walsh that this isn't Russia. I do not live in Russia. I refuse to live in Russia, we can't just cancel elections in this country. That's what Donald Trump is doing. Donald Trump's literally canceling elections, and it's very easy to be p *** off at Donald Trump, but we're used to this with Donald Trump. He is a would-be dictator. He would like this to be Russia. – Joe Walsh**	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The President's comments are beneath the dignity of the office. To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former vice president speaks for itself. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think he understands that he's not a dictator. – Tom Vilsack	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The challenge we face is that the president of the United States wants desperately to prevent Congress, a co-equal branch of government, from providing any check whatsoever on even his most reckless decisions, the very system of government in the United States, the system of limited power, the system of not having a president as a dictator is very much at stake. – Jerrold Nadler	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The very system of government of the United States - the system of limited power, the system of not having a president as a dictator - is very much at stake. – Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

He’s the most arrogant governor I’ve ever seen in my life. It is shocking, it really is. Enough is enough, he’s a barbaric, wannabe dictator.

– Charlie Crist

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

May 9 is designed to show off to the home crowd, to intimidate the opposition and to please the dictator of the time.

– James Nixey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was speaking from his heart and speaking from what we’ve seen on television, which is barbaric actions by a brutal dictator through his invasion of a foreign country.

– Jen Psaki

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine has threatened to plunge Europe into the deadliest conflict since 1945, putin’s continued attack on a sovereign nation demands a strong and united response from the U.S and our NATO allies. I am glad to visit Poland as we work together to halt Putin’s advance.

– Roger Wicker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I do not think anything savvy or genius about Putin. I think Putin is evil, I think he's a dictator, and I think he's murdering people right now.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the way a dictator operates, this is one of his public demands.

– Pastor Andrew Moroz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If you get four more years of this dictator, it will cost you a lot more, it’s time for change.

– Brian Dahle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From China to Russia and beyond, they're betting that democracy's days are numbered, they're betting America's a place for the autocrat, the dictator, the strongman.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You school board have the right to govern over the school and to push back against the governmental overreach of a governor who is acting as more of a dictator than an elected official.

– Stephen Lindemuth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The dictator publicly takes revenge on his strongest opponents, while hiding the political prisoners in closed trials, he hopes to continue repressions in silence. But the whole world watches. We won't stop.

– Svetlana Tikhanovskaya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The problem with what he( Biden) did in February is he basically acted like a dictator – we’re a nation of laws here, Laura as you well know – and you ca n’t just come into office and arbitrarily and capriciously change lawfully emplaced laws of the previous administration, see, he left our Title 42 laws in place – he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth.

– Brian Harrison

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Min Aung Hlaing is a dictator. He was a dictator all along, this is a coup against democracy in Myanmar because it's not as if this was a close election -- it was overwhelming, with a high turnout during a pandemic.

– David Mathieson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think there has been a significant change in China, in Beijing, since Xi Jinping became president or dictator for life, complete with a personality cult which is extraordinary, i think the sad point is that Xi Jinping and his court have regarded Hong Kong and Hong Kong's freedoms as an existential problem for them because Hong Kong represents so much of what they don't like.

– Chris Patten

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

He is called the last dictator in Europe because Belarus has basically continued to be a Soviet-style state. He is the leader of a one-party state, just like the Soviet Union was ruled, if you want to see what the USSR was like, go to [its capital]Minsk.

– Matthew Schmidt

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Trump has called the press the 'enemy of the people,' and now - taking a page from his dictator friends around the world - is trying to dismantle the right to a free press in the First Amendment by suing the New York Times for publishing an opinion column about his dangerous relationship with Russia.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If he is permitted to defy the Congress, categorically, to say that subpoenas from Congress in an impeachment inquiry are nonsense, then we will have lost -- the House will have lost, the Senate certainly will have lost -- all power to hold any president accountable, this is a determination by President Trump that President Trump wants to be all powerful. President Trump does not have to respect the Congress. President Trump does not have to respect the representatives of the people. Only President Trump will goes. He is a dictator. This must not stand.

– Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Were up against a crisis I never thought Id see in my lifetime: a dictator-like attack by President Donald Trump on everything this country stands for, aslast weeks impeachment hearingsmade clear, our shared tolerance and respect for the truth, our sacred rule of law, our essential freedom of the press and our precious freedoms of speech --all have been threatened by a single man.

– Robert Redford

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Hes not a president. Hes a dictator, he doesnt respect the First Amendment. He doesnt even know what it is.

– Joe Walsh

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

President Donald Trump leads along the lines of being a dictator, if it were to come down to a button, I think President Donald Trump would push it before President Donald Trump would go to Congress and get their advice.

– Lorenzo Spencer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I always want to pinch Joe Walsh and remind Joe Walsh that this isn't Russia. I do not live in Russia. I refuse to live in Russia, we can't just cancel elections in this country. That's what Donald Trump is doing. Donald Trump's literally canceling elections, and it's very easy to be p ***** off at Donald Trump, but we're used to this with Donald Trump. He is a would-be dictator. He would like this to be Russia.

– Joe Walsh

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The President's comments are beneath the dignity of the office. To be on foreign soil, on Memorial Day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow American and former vice president speaks for itself.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't think he understands that he's not a dictator.

– Tom Vilsack

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The challenge we face is that the president of the United States wants desperately to prevent Congress, a co-equal branch of government, from providing any check whatsoever on even his most reckless decisions, the very system of government in the United States, the system of limited power, the system of not having a president as a dictator is very much at stake.

– Jerrold Nadler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The very system of government of the United States - the system of limited power, the system of not having a president as a dictator - is very much at stake.

– Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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